I want to be emperor

Chapter 487 The Death of Zuo Liangyu

As the Taiyuan defenders surrendered without a fight, most of the remnants of the Ximing Army in the surrounding areas had no desire to resist, and surrendered one after another or fled to the plateau mountains in the west.

Especially the thousands of remnants of the Ming army in Pingyang Mansion, seeing that the situation has deteriorated beyond recovery, there are also internal differences.

In the end, some generals led their troops and fled west across the Yellow River to find Zuo Liangyu, while others surrendered to the Chu army on their own initiative.

By May, all parts of Shanxi to the east of the Yellow River had been brought under the control of the Chu army, and a large number of officials from the civil affairs departments of the Great Chu Empire, especially tax officials, began to station in various parts of Shanxi and establish effective administrative rule.

Then the forward forces of the Chu army continued to march towards the Shaanxi Plateau.

Because it is a plateau and mountainous area, it is difficult to supply, and it is not convenient to march. The marching speed of the Chu army is not fast, and the method adopted is to advance steadily and gradually.

However, this steady and gradual approach made the remnants of Zuo Liangyu feel even more desperate!

I can't fight, I can't defend, even if I want to escape, I don't know where to escape!

To the west of them is Lanzhou, which has been actually controlled by the Chu army, and to the east of Lanzhou, the northern area of ​​Gongchang Mansion, and even parts of Pingliang Mansion, including the important town of Guyuan Prefecture, have been actually controlled by the Chu army.

When the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Headquarters headed westward, after defeating Sun Chuanting in April and killing the remnants of Emperor Longxing who had fled westward, they did not stop their march to the west, and they continued all the way westward.

During this process, a large number of local officials and frontier troops surrendered, and the frontier troops of Shaanxi Xingdusi in the northwest directly surrendered as a whole. Therefore, in the subsequent westward march of the Chu army, they did not encounter much actual resistance. Sometimes they march all the way, even marching lightly to take over the place and reorganize the local troops.

So by the end of May, most of the western regions had actually been brought under the rule of the Great Chu Empire. Well, although Gansu Town in the northwest of Lanzhou was still garrisoned by local frontier troops, at least in name it also belonged to the Great Chu Empire. Empire took control.

Not to mention the south of Zuo Liangyu, that is the Guanzhong area, which is already the hinterland of the Chu army's control area, and there are many troops there.

To the east of Zuo Liangyu's headquarters is the Shanxi area east of the Yellow River, which is currently under the control of the Chu army.

To the north is the Hetao area controlled by the Tatars.

Zuo Liangyu's troops are currently besieged in a narrow plateau in northern Shaanxi.

In addition, the Chu army pressed on Zuo Liangyu's troops from three directions at the same time. Under such circumstances, many civil and military officials under Zuo Liangyu's subordinates felt desperate, so more and more surrendered .

Not to mention the generals under his command, even Zuo Liangyu himself had the intention of surrendering at this time.

Although he is very ambitious and wants to occupy a place and become a local emperor, he is not stupid, he knows that it is impossible for him to come back now.

It's a pity that Zuo Liangyu was beheaded before he could act!
It was not the external enemies who killed him, but the generals under him!
Zuo Liangyu himself wanted to surrender, and his generals wanted to surrender even more, and no one wanted to follow Zuo Liangyu all the way to death.

Ever since, there were a few courageous generals who first contacted the military intelligence department of the Great Chu Empire, and after obtaining the promise from the Chu army, they resolutely raised troops and killed Zuo Liangyu.

Ever since, on May 28, Zuo Liangyu, who once traversed several provinces in the Central Plains and was an important general who resisted the Chu army in the Ming Dynasty, was killed by his generals and soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, the generals of the Western Ming Army who beheaded Zuo Liangyu killed Shao'an Emperor Zhu Changhao who had just proclaimed himself emperor for less than a month, and then announced that they would surrender to the Great Chu Empire as a whole!
On June [-], General Huang Dingquan officially represented the empire and accepted the surrender of Zuo Liangyu's remnants.

As a result, the entire territory of Shaanxi surrendered to the Great Chu Empire!
The Western Front campaign has come to a successful conclusion!
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In mid-June, the news of Zuo Liangyu's remnant troops surrendered reached Jinling City, and Luo Zhixue immediately issued an order to reward the soldiers of all the troops in the Western Expedition.

At the same time, according to the strategic situation on the northern and western fronts, especially after Sun Chuanting's and Zuo Liangyu's troops were destroyed, the Shaanxi-Gansu Campaign Command and the Shanxi Campaign Command, which were originally set up specifically for these two enemies, were also revoked.

And changed the Shaanxi Xingdu Division to Gansu Province, and implemented military control.

Subsequently, the Northwest Frontier Command was established to govern the frontier affairs of Gansu, Yulin, Shaanxi, and Ningxia, with General Huang Dingquan as the commander.

The Xuanda Frontier Defense Command was established to take charge of military affairs in Datong, Shanxi, Xuanfu, Hebei and other places, with General Li Dongshao as the commander.

These two headquarters are the frontier defense headquarters that specialize in foreign operations. Behind them, there are four regular local defense headquarters: the Shanxi Defense Command, the Shaanxi Defense Command, the Gansu Defense Command, and the Hebei Defense Command. .

At the same time, it is required to reorganize the surrendered troops in the northwest and northern border towns. Relying on the elite surrendered troops, they will successively reorganize six second-class divisions, which will be used for inland suppression in Shaanxi, Gansu and Shanxi, and to support the main frontier army operations.

When the northwest and northern regions were initially settled, Lieutenant General Huang Guangmao, who was on the front line of the Guanzhong Prefecture, also stepped down from his post as the garrison commander of Shaanxi, and was then appointed the new title of garrison commander of Sichuan. At the same time, his troops also increased. A main force was formed.

This division is the newly reorganized No.20 Sixth Division of the Chu Army. In fact, this division has just been formed not long ago. Because of the shortage of front-line troops, the high-level empire sent this division to Hanzhong Mansion to participate in the battle in Sichuan.

At the same time, the fourth howitzer battalion was temporarily organized along with this division, which was also the fourth [-]-pound light howitzer battalion in the Chu army.

The Ministry of Industry of the Great Chu Empire began to fully organize the production of [-]-jin light howitzers in late December last year. Although the output was not high at the beginning, the output increased rapidly after entering March.

At present, hundreds of [-]-pound light howitzers have been produced. These artillery are temporarily organized into multiple independent howitzer battalions. Each battalion tentatively has [-] artillery pieces. The first battalion is from Shaanxi and Gansu, and it is also participating in the project. The first howitzer battalion of the Chu army fighting in Tongguan, the second battalion was deployed on the front line of Shanhaiguan, and the third battalion pulled down the front line of Xuanfu, mainly used to fight the Dongyao people.

The Fourth Battalion is now dispatched to Hanzhong and is expected to participate in the battle in the direction of Sichuan.

In addition, there are the fifth, sixth, and seventh battalions in the rear, which are being rehearsed, if nothing unexpected happens.

According to the plan of the Chu army, ten independent howitzer battalions will be established for emergency this year, and then the new main infantry division will be equipped with this light howitzer, which will be directly used as divisional firepower.

The Chu army fighting from Hanzhong to the south of Sichuan has two first-class divisions, one new and one old, and it also has the fire support of an [-]-jin light howitzer battalion.

The strong strength is not something that the local troops in Sichuan can resist.

There are not many new standard troops in Sichuan. Before, the governor of Sichuan set up a new standard army in Sichuan, but the strength of the troops could not be increased for a long time. There were only a few thousand people. Sichuan resisted the Chu army, especially in the eastern Sichuan area. The battle mainly relied on the chieftain troops headed by Qin Liangyu.

Relying on the terrain to carry out stubborn resistance.

For this kind of enemy who is still in the era of cold weapons, it's fine if the Chu army didn't devote its main energy to Sichuan before. Now a large amount of strategic materials, especially artillery shells, are transported to the front lines of eastern Sichuan and Hanzhong without money, and a large amount is used The civilian husband carries on the transportation.

Under the indiscriminate bombardment of cannons, Qin Liangyu fought fiercely. He resisted the attack of the No.18 Division of the Chu Army in eastern Sichuan. However, in Baoding Prefecture in northern Sichuan, some local guards and some chieftains The soldiers could not stop the onslaught of the tens of thousands of main forces of the Chu army.

In July, Lieutenant General Huang Guangmao led the main force of the exhausted Chu army to Bazhong, Baoding Prefecture, with a group of people climbing mountains and wading through rivers.

After Huang Guangmao led the army into Sichuan, the local situation boiled instantly.

A large number of local officials directly changed their flags, and the local defenders surrendered anyway.

Huang Guangmao still took the main force to rest in Bazhong, and when he was stockpiling ammunition, food and grass again, he found out that many surrounding places had become the territory of their Great Chu Empire...

One question, good guy, many local officials directly changed their banners and declared themselves to be ministers of the Great Chu...

Under such circumstances, this battle into Sichuan became almost the same as an armed march. There were not a few decent battles at all, and then they went all the way to Chengdu smoothly.

Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, simply beheaded Zhu Zhishu, who was supported by him personally, and then led five thousand troops out of the city to surrender!

Zhu Zhishu was also quite unlucky. At the beginning, he was unwilling to be a state supervisor, but Shao Jiechun forced him to do it. If he didn't do it properly, he would die of illness, and then let the son of the King of Shu be...

After Chongzhen died, the vassal lords who popped up from all over the country did not have any real power, whether they proclaimed themselves emperors or supervised the country. Emperor Longxing was better off, but Sun Chuanting was Finally, the Ming court also gave him certain powers, otherwise Emperor Longxing would not even be able to build temples...

But the others are basically empty shelves, just a banner for those ambitious people.

Not long after Zhu Zhishu's hard-pressed prison life, he was chopped off by Shao Jiechun, who was determined to switch to Great Chu, and then Shao Jiechun took his head and surrendered to the Great Chu Empire...

As for the voluntary surrender of the Chengdu defenders, and they did not resist at all, and even took the initiative to take the troops of the Great Chu Empire to confiscate all the dignitaries in the city, including the assets of the Shu Palace, the Chu army did not embarrass these people.

Ever since, Shao Jiechun was lucky enough to avoid the disaster of exterminating his family, and became an official of the Great Chu Empire backhandedly.

Because Shao Jiechun also took the initiative to recruit and surrender other armies in Sichuan, including personally going to eastern Sichuan to persuade Qin Liangyu to vote for Chu, and succeeded, so this guy made meritorious service as soon as he voted for Chu, and was awarded the rank of Cong Sanpin.

Although it's just a false title, and he may hold a practical position in a short period of time, it's still a third rank.

The time has entered September, and Sichuan is fully under the rule of the Great Chu Empire!

Now, except for the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, all the other places in the pass are under the control of the Great Chu Empire!

As for the Yunnan-Guizhou region, the Great Chu Empire did not intend to delay it for too long. Taking advantage of the official end of the Sichuan War, the Chuping of Shanxi-Gansu, the Jiliao and the northern theaters did not have a favorable opportunity for a large-scale attack by the Eastern captives, they decisively launched in September. Southwest campaign against Yunnan and Guizhou.

After the fight in the southwest is over, the Great Chu Empire will be able to concentrate its forces on a war of annihilation against the captives in the east.

Luo Zhixue is looking forward to this!
(End of this chapter)